Page of Calm Sea by VELDE, Willem van de, the Younger in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Calm Sea
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Oil on canvas, 51,6 x 56,5 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Van de Velde's calms are amongst the most accomplished of all his paintings, and are central to his work in Holland from the 1650s onwards. Typically, as here, they depict Dutch coastal craft at low tide among the sand banks of the northern Dutch coast.